Louie is awesome. And the season opener was great. I love how it's this utterly ridiculous sit-com, but seems to actually contain some kind of honesty. Sure, I know he's a craftsman and works really hard at delivering the bits, and that everything always revolves around him being 44 and having kids, but everything feels honest. And since it feels honest, it also feels fresh and not the same old tripe we've been fed through years and years of "family comedy".

My penis oozes tears and my eyes dribble cum every time I watch this show. It's so fucking great. Season two I think may have even stepped up above and beyond the already bar-setting and ground-breaking first season.

One of my singular favorite parts is in the "Country Drive" episode. When they're driving in the car and "Who Are You" comes on the radio. The entire sequence of that is great, but there is a moment that occurs while he's rocking out and singing the song to his daughters in the back seat where he adlibs, "Arghh who the fuck are you!?". I fucking shit out my ears and gave myself internal bleeding I laughed so hard at that.

The next episode where he spends the day with Pamela and expresses his love and infatuation with her...wow. Nothing short of brilliant, in every possible literal sense of the word. Pamela is one of my favorite semi-regulars, so I was happy to see her in nearly an entire episode.

I think my personal favorite episode of the season so far is "Eddie," guest starring Doug Stanhope. I've always thought he had pretty good standup and made for great spots on radio shows and podcasts, though probably never would have truly called myself a fan of his. His appearance in this episode though was fantastic, not just for the jokes ("Shitty fat tits...write that one down" lol) but his acting was wonderful, much like Louis C.K. himself. Though, much like Louis again, I doubt he has a whole lot of range and could actually work with many Hollywood actors and directors instead of just friends that he would or should want to become an actor first over a comedian, but it was very enjoyable to watch.

Season three better have a million episodes.

roughdraft_zero

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Subject: Re: Watched the season 2 premiere of Louie on FX last night Sat May 26, 2012 7:47 am

LOL

Season 2 DVD (and Blu-Ray combo-pack assume, like how season 1 was) comes out next month, about a week before Season 3 premieres near the end of next month. I saw a thing on his Tumblr saying that he "fired himself" as editor lol. Kinda sucks since he was pretty exceptional at it, but I think the person taking his place was involved in the editing somehow in previous seasons so it may not be too much a departure from the style we're used to seeing in the show.

They usually have at least some on hulu. Netflix has I think the first two seasons streaming, maybe some of the new stuff too, not sure though.

Been watching season 2 again, since I bought the Blu-Ray. The commentaries are less numerous than the first season's Blu-Ray (only five instead of the eleven from before) and less interesting, as in he himself seems less interested. Kinda disappointing. The first two episodes of season 3 have been par for the course so far, though. Whole season should be good, hopefully. In one of the commentaries from season 2, he mentioned he was considering doing an episode that consists entirely of stand-up. I hope he doesn't do that. As much as I love his stand-up and think it fits well within the show, inbetween scenes and stories, I'd rather not "lose" a chance to witness his storytelling.

Also, all the dates for when his tour comes to San Francisco in November are already sold out. Balls.

303 was a killer episode. The whole premise is a few years old (from either chewed up or shameless I think), but the way he pulls it off is beautiful.

The first few minutes were a bit off, as I thought

Spoiler:

that he was just gonna keep riffing on the "fat middle aged white guy is awkward around young fit people"-theme he's been from time to time. But the way he pulled Ramon into the story was awesome. I kept expecting it to turn into Louie being awkward at Ramon's baywatch-party, and while there was some of that ("Hola...?"), the rest of the episode developed beautifully.

I'm still cable-less as usual, but when season three started I watched the first few episodes that a friend had recorded at his house, but I haven't seen more than that. They were indeed just as strong and interesting as ever, but I'm probably gonna just end up having to wait for the Blu-Ray to watch it proper.